%0 Journal Article
%T Descriptive characteristics of callers to an emotional support and suicide prevention helpline in Bangladesh (first five years)
%J Asian journal of psychiatry
%D 2019
%A Iqbal, Yeshim
%A Jahan, Rubina
%A Matin, Muhtasabbib Rumman
%V 45
%N 
%P 63-65
%X Although crisis helplines are an established method of suicide prevention, there is little research on their operation in developing countries. This paper reviews calls (N = 14,344) to the only suicide prevention hotline in Bangladesh during the first five years of the helpline's operation. Call characteristics were recorded on checklists, compiled, and analyzed. <br><br>RESULTS indicate that callers are about half male, mostly between the ages of twenty and thirty-nine, and mostly not suicidal. Callers display a wide range of reasons for calling, with relationship issues, mental illness/substance abuse, and emotions constituting the majority of calls.<br><br>Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Elsevier Publishing
%@ 1876-2018
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2019.09.005